Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1062 mails)

[mgx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Galloway)]

of course, you could have the process write its PID to a file then
use something like kill -9 'cat /path/to/process.pid.file'

-- michael

> > Can anyone tell me how I can kill a process without using its pid.  I
> > would like to use something a little more fixed to that particular
> > process.  PID's change everytime a process is started and I am going
> > to be using automated scripts to kill certain processes.
> > 
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